Archives: Speakers

Julien Draper 2024 Speaker

Julien Draper is a partner at Knife Capital. As custodian of ‘FIND’ and the ESG advisory in the VC, Julien has played a crucial role in the UK and South African entrepreneurial ecosystems over his 10+ years in entrepreneurship across the globe.

Julia Hawkins 2024 Speaker

Julia Hawkins is the Founder and Director of Hawkins Eberdal Ltd, a financial advisory firm in Mauritius specialising in raising international capital for high-growth sustainable ventures across the African continent. Their expertise lies in corporate and project finance, with a focus on renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, agriculture and health. Julia, originally from Sweden, spent over… Read more »

Jote Wakjira 2024 Speaker

Jote is the Co-founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Equinox Group Holdings Inc. For over a decade, he has championed companies aiming to expand into Africa. This journey began at TMF Group, where he served as the Manager for Africa for five years, starting as the group’s first employee in Africa and expanding the… Read more »

Joseph Sawe 2024 Speaker

Joseph Sawe is a seasoned professional with over 14 years of experience, he serves as the Portfolio Lead for The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity (FRP) where he oversees management of the portfolio of participants’ and partners’ projects towards effective implementation of the program. Sawe is also the pillar lead for the Youth,… Read more »

Joseph Odianosen Eimunjeze 2024 Speaker

Joseph Eimunjeze is a Partner in the Banking and Finance, Capital markets, Tax, and Fintech practice groups of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, a Tier 1 full-service commercial law firm in Nigeria. With over 15 years in active practice, Joseph has made significant contributions to his fields of practice. His expertise in the capital markets space… Read more »

Jorgs Mbugua 2024 Speaker

Jorgs has a background in Land Administration from the Technical University of Kenya. He is well versed in GIS systems, web mapping, land laws, land use and planning. He founded Landinfo System, an open public web portal that offered official land record searches through the internet and digitized the communal data to create an easy… Read more »

Jonty Rawlins 2024 Speaker

Jonty is focused is on creating market incentives for sustainable and climate-resilient development through both innovative and sustainable financing instruments and impact-first business and project development. Jonty has worked across a wide variety of sectors and impact areas including agriculture, natural resource management, financial services, biodiversity conservation, forestry and renewable energy amongst others. He is… Read more »

Jonathan Berman 2024 Speaker

Jonathan has 35 years’ experience in financing the energy, infrastructure and resources sectors in Africa and other emerging markets. He has headed Barclays’ African investment bank and Deutsche Bank’s Johannesburg branch, served as a non-executive on the boards and IC’s of several African funds and exchanges, and has advised many of the continent’s pioneering energy… Read more »

John Hodder 2024 Speaker

John Hodder is a geologist by background with a B.Sc. majoring in Geology and a B. Com. majoring in Finance from the University of Queensland. John spent ten years in the mining and oil and gas industries, with LASMO, City Resources & CONOCO (UK), before completing a Masters in Finance at London Business School. John… Read more »

John Felicite 2024 Speaker

Having started his career at Robert Flemings in equity research, John has over 25 years’ industry experience. During this time he has had a long career in portfolio management at London and Capital Asset Management focusing on clients from the African continent. With a keen interest on the entrepreneurial side of his clients’ activities, John… Read more »